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Overdose rates in lithium-treated versus antidepressant-treated outpatients
1Department of Psychiatry, Airedale General Hospital, Keighley, United Kingdom.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|July 1, 1994
Abstract:
Our clinical experience that lithium is an agent used infrequently for self-poisoning was investigated. The rate at which such overdoses occurred was determined from hospital records. A retrospective case notes study then compared overdose rates in patients taking lithium versus patients on antidepressant medication. A low rate of lithium overdoses was identified, and this appeared to be due to patients on lithium rarely taking overdoses rather than their choice of agent.